Quotes About Understanding

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

I can't use words to respond to this communication...I can only answer...as a forward!

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

Chemistry is a funny thing, miss. Sometimes those who are experiencing it aren't always aware they are.

I don't share your views, Mom. That doesn't mean I don't love you, or respect your choices or advice. It just means we disagree,

It's about purpose. About always coming back to being kind to another being instead of trying to get something from them.

Whoever has a perfect vision of one thing, Has the perfect vision of all things, For the emptiness of one thing Is the emptiness of all things. – Aryadeva

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Love is the absence of judgment.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Someone who doesn't know history, he says, is "in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify.

understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But

We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In

Paradox is not just a logician's art. It is every man's tool to understand the real world we inhabit for a short time, and how it shapes our everlasting life. Paradox is a tool so common that a carpenter once used it to explain the depth of our existence.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." This